In this ad for the Tandy 1000 SX, Radio Shack shamelessly depicts the 1980s version of the “work in your underwear” marketing tagline: work in your shorts. Oh, the indecency. If this guy shows any more leg, it’s going to cause a scandal.

Discussion topic of the week: What if everyone wore shorts while using computers? Would global economic productivity grind to a halt?

[ Scanned from BYTE, July 1987 ]

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I wonder what he’s going to use that pencil for…..the only papers on his desk are in a folder (that’s closed) and it’s on the right side, not the left.

As someone who writes left handed, I recognize that the desk is set up completely wrong (even if you were to add a mouse). Granted, he might have to share the computer with some righties, but even then, centering the computer (which will actually give better ergonomics, but we didn’t know that then) and putting the printer on the left would give space on the right and the left for people to write.